Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Garrison Keillor

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Auguste Renoir

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

Linford Christie

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

Maurice Greene

It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that. To me, it's all about driving the race car.

Greg Moore

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of S

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Michelle Obama

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Carlos Ghosn

Grief is light that is capable of counsel.

Proverb